Chapter 350
After Negri hypnotized the security guard, he gave him a special plant powder to smear on the soles of his shoes. This powder would leave behind a unique trail that only Negri, the one who made it, would be able to discover.
It was through this trail that Negri was able to track down the Abnormality Elimination Squad.
Should I say that they're brave or that they don't know their place? Probably the latter. Negri jumped down the drain and closed the manhole cover. Closing the door behind you was a good habit.
At the same time, the target that Negri was tracking was also in danger.
Inside the sewers filled with dirty water, there seemed to be something rolling around inside. Meanwhile, the group led by Roger was running away with a terrified expression on their faces. They ran as fast as they could without caring about where they were going.
The torches in their hands were crackling as they ran, if it weren't for the sake of illumination, they would've already thrown them to the side.
"Roger, didn't you say that you inherited magic? Hurry up and use it!" A female student in the group called Reese was panting and shouting. Her constitution was relatively weak, so she was already at the very back of the group, and the monster rolling around in the dirty water was right behind her.
Although Reese claimed that she often exercised, she was actually working out. She only said that she was working out so that she wouldn't lose face. In truth, she only joined the Abnormality Elimination Squad to eat and drink for free. Although Roger was a bit arrogant, he was willing to spend money. The group's daily meals and other expenses were all paid by Roger, not to mention the club's funds, which was much better than her working.
In order to join the club to eat and drink for free, Reese claimed that she was interested in mysteries, but she herself wasn't interested in such things. She originally thought that this was just a casual club, but she didn't think that she would actually run into a mysterious incident.
In fact, as soon as the first signs appeared, Reese wanted to find an excuse to leave, but after Roger found a clue and promised her a large sum of money, thinking about the dwindling living expenses that her family was giving her, she greedily stayed.
As it turned out, greed was indeed a bad habit, so she was now in a dangerous situation. Most of the people in the group blamed their leader, Roger.
Previously, he swore that he had inherited magical abilities, but when they were really in danger, he immediately gave the order to escape.
Roger was also suffering unspeakably in his heart. They followed the trail of the dead security guard and found the entrance to the underground sewers, where they discovered a few abnormal traces, as well as a disgusting pile of feces. Then, they encountered the monster that rushed out of the pile of feces.
Roger had overestimated his mental fortitude. He couldn't be said to be weak, but he also couldn't be said to be strong. Aside from a few special spells, most spells required a stable mental state.
After a long period of practice, other mages would at least be able to maintain a stable state of mind to cast a spell even in a panicked state, but Roger had only inherited the spell for a day, so in order to conserve what little mana he had, he had only practiced it once or twice when he was in a stable state of mind, so he didn't know much about the various taboos involved in casting spells.
Therefore, when faced with the sudden appearance of the monster, he was unable to complete his spell at all. Fortunately, he still retained some of his rationality. He immediately shouted for retreat and ran away with his Abnormality Elimination Squad.
Of course, the reason they were able to escape was because they had sacrificed a friend.
One of the squad members who was standing relatively close to the pile of feces was directly pounced on by the white mass, following which they heard the final screams of this young life form before his death.
Thanks to the effects of the 'Divine Artifact', they managed to buy themselves some time to escape, but after they lost their sense of direction while running, they were once again caught up to by the monster.
"Save me, I don't want to die!" Behind them, Liz looked at the silent Roger who was running in front of her and completely broke down. She loudly shouted: "My parents paid such a heavy price to send me to the academy, if I die, I'll have nothing left!"
"Roger, Randhir, save me, save me, someone save me!" Liz cried, but her speed was getting slower and slower.
Whoosh …
The white mass of feces leapt out of the feces, carrying a foul stench with it as it rushed towards Liz. Liz completely stopped running, crouched on the ground while clutching her head and screaming.
In any adventure story, there would always be a hero descending from the sky to save a beauty in desperate straits, or a member of the same squad would suddenly find his conscience and turn around to save her.
But the truth was that Roger's squad was running even faster than before. They didn't even bother to look back. The 'hero' who descended from the sky had only just entered the sewers, so without any suspense, the white mass of monsters instantly engulfed Liz. Her screams of pain once again resounded throughout the entire sewers, spurring the squad members ahead of them to run even faster.
After all, one of the three Divine Artifacts only had so many friends, so there was no telling when they would be the ones screaming in pain.
After turning another corner, the squad behind them gradually quieted down. It was as if the monster was satisfied after eating two people, or perhaps they had run out of the monster's range.
The squad members no longer cared about their gentlemanly appearances and directly collapsed into the dirty sewers, panting heavily.
After a few minutes of silence, one of the squad members exploded. He grabbed Roger by the collar and questioned him with an extremely agitated expression: "You bastard, where's your magic? Did you trick us into coming down here just to escape and kill us along the way?"
"Why are you shouting at me? I already told you that this would be a dangerous journey, but none of you were complaining about it at the time. Instead, you were all excited!" Although Roger felt a bit guilty, his arrogant nature wasn't one to easily admit his mistakes, so he raised his voice even louder in response to this person's question.
"Nott is dead, Liz is also dead, you coward with a mouth full of lies!" Another squad member, the one who tailed Negri earlier, also stepped forward and loudly criticized Roger.
"It's true that I wasn't prepared, so I couldn't cast my spell and ran away, but you guys weren't any better off, were you even a single step slower?" Roger was also feeling a bit hopeless.
"I don't think this is the time for us to argue, we have two questions" the only female squad member left coldly said: "First, where are we right now?"
It was only now that everyone had calmed down a bit, they realized that due to their panic, they had already lost their way in the sewers.
"Second question, where did the security guard and Randhir go?" Roger was a bit surprised. Due to his earlier panic, he only noticed now that other than the two people who were killed by the monster, there were two other people who had taken other paths when they ran away, so they had already separated from them.
"They took the left path at the fourth fork before us" it took a bit of thought for them to recall how they got separated.
"So what do we do now?" the woman asked with a bitter expression.
"Screech!"
A voice resounded from above their heads, causing them to tremble in fear and almost run away again. It was only after a long while that they realized that the voice was coming from the ground.
"This is a construction site, I remember there's a manhole cover nearby, we can leave from there" the person who questioned Roger earlier excitedly thought. The man who questioned Roger just now excitedly thought to himself. He didn't want to stay in this terrible sewer any longer.
"Then what about Randhir and the security guard?" as soon as Roger asked, he received an answer.
"I don't care if they die!" "Roger, don't even think about trying to deceive us again. If you want to save someone, do it yourself, don't make us your scapegoats. Landier is your brother, not ours" The two men spoke at the same time, then continued: "Roger, don't even think about deceiving us again.
Roger's expression froze. He had only casually mentioned it to refute them for the sake of refuting them. In truth, he also wanted nothing more than to find the nearest exit and leave this damned place as soon as possible. However, the words of these two people had put Roger, who had always cared about his reputation, into an awkward situation. If he followed them out like this, and word of this got out, how would others look at him?
Leaving Nott and Reese behind could still explain that he wasn't prepared, but if he left Randhir and the others behind as well, his reputation would be completely lost.
"I'll go save them, regardless of whether you go or not" Roger forced himself to maintain his dignity. At the same time, he was consoling himself that it was only an unexpected situation earlier, which was why he couldn't do anything about it. Now that he had mentally prepared himself, if he ran into any monsters again, he would let them have a taste of the power of magic.
"If you want to die, then go ahead, Quirl. Who are you going with?" The two men turned their gazes to the only remaining female teammate, hoping that she would go with them. After all, the more people there were, the more chances of survival they would have.
The woman called Quirl glanced at both sides hesitantly, then finally decided to stand by Roger's side.
"You will regret this." The two men mumbled to themselves as they looked for an exit nearby. Obviously, they did not know the fixed rule of horror movies. Those who ran away from the group would be killed very quickly.
And so, after turning two more corners, they saw a new pile of shit, from which a white monster had emerged.
Roger and Quirl awkwardly exchanged glances, then could only grit their teeth and carefully search the path they came from. Suddenly, they heard a desperate scream behind them, causing them to tremble and immediately start running.
At the very least, they weren't as panicked this time and chose the path where Randhir and the security guard got separated. Not too long later, they heard another scream. After sacrificing another two of their friends, they received information that there were also monsters in that direction.
Roger and Quirl were panting heavily as they ran through the underground sewers. As they turned around, they suddenly noticed a glimmer of light in front of them. Thinking that they had found an exit, the two hurriedly ran towards it, only to roll down a flight of stone steps. When they endured the pain and opened their eyes, they found that they had fallen into a long passageway, with cells on both sides.
There were a few rune-engraved pipes inside the cells that occasionally gave off a humming sound.
Creak …
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